The band announced the news on social media earlier this week, sharing that the tour will begin May 27th. They wrote: "Helsinki, Rättvik, Copenhagen, Berlin and Brussels shows. Presale starts Wednesday 25.02 at 9AM GMT. Go to WhatsApp for updates ⬆️."
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General tickets will go on sale tomorrow (February 27th) at 1oam, with tickets available on Ticketmaster. You can also sign up their Whatsapp channel to receive further updates.
The tour will kick off at the Veikkaus Arena in Helsinki on May 27th, shorlty after they will be at the Dalhalla venue in Rättvik on May 30th. The band will then head to the Royal Arena in Copenhagen on June 1st, the Zitadelle in Berlin on June 7th, and the Forest National in Brussels on June 8th.
At the end of last year, the band announced that they will be releasing new music in 2026. The group posted to Instagram: “From next year we will release a cache of work created in the recent past, tracks will be available physically and digitally via a new label with a Spotify exception.”
Massive Attack joined artists such as Kneecap, Lorde, Fontaines DC and Hayley Williams for the No Music For Genocide campaign, as Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek has invested in military technology and the platform advertising for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E) recruitment, according to Hotpress. It has also been reported that Ek has made investments towards Helsing, the German defense contractor, which provides weaponry to Ukraine.
The band said in a statement that in their view "the historic precedent of effective artist action during apartheid South Africa and the apartheid, war crimes and genocide now being committed by the state of Israel renders the No Music For Genocide' campaign imperative."
"In the separate case of Spotify, the economic burden that has long been placed on artists is now compounded by a moral and ethical burden, whereby the hard-earned money of fans and the creative endeavours of musicians ultimately funds lethal, dystopian technologies," they continued.
In other news, it has been revealed that Grian Chatten will be covering two of Massive Attacks songs for the upcoming film 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man'. It has been reported that there will be two 'transformative' covers of Massive Attacks songs by Chatten and Irish-Cornish band Girl In The Year Above.
Chatten recently released the track 'Puppet' that will feature in the upcoming film starring Cillian Murphy. The film will hit cinema screens on March 6, before streaming on Netflix from March 20. In an interview after the release, Murphy revealed that his a "massive fan" of Fontaines DC. Read more on Nova here.
